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To: elmatador who wrote (94125)	8/30/2012 6:41:25 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 220297

he got his geologist tool and prod the ground to discover they landed atop a mountain of iron ore That is a great story. "A certain noble, whose name is not recorded, tied his horse, which was named Ramelus to the branch of a tree which grew on the mountain. This horse, pawing the earth with its hoofs, which were iron shod, and thus turning it over, uncovered a hidden vein of lead, not unlike the winged Pegasus, who in the legend of the poets opened a spring when he beat the rock with his hoof. So just as that spring is named Hipprocrene after that horse, so our ancestors named the mountain Rammelsberg." From: De re metallica ( Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. Translated by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover Another story is the one of Thomas Creighton finding the Flin Flon mine by pulling off some moss from a rock to use as toilet paper and discovering the mother load. I note Wikipedia does not share the full story... en.wikipedia.org